Donald Trump declared Tuesday morning that the Air Force should cancel its contract with Boeing to build two new presidential airplanes, asserting that the agreement had a $4 billion price tag.

“Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!” the president-elect tweeted.

It’s not clear how Trump, who frequently tweets exaggerated or baseless claims, arrived at that number. Reuters, citing budget documents, reported that the “budgeted costs for the Air Force One replacement program are $2.87 billion for the fiscal years 2015 through 2021.”

The aircraft manufacturing company issued a statement clarifying that it is currently under contract for $170 million to determine the capabilities of the new aircraft.

“We are currently under contract for $170 million to help determine the capabilities of these complex military aircraft that serve the unique requirements of the President of the United States. We look forward to working with the U.S. Air Force on subsequent phases of the program allowing us to deliver the best planes for the President at the best value for the American taxpayer.”

If President Barack Obama sought to usher America into a postracial era, it is increasingly apparent that President-elect Donald Trump is opening the door to the postideological era. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to identify a clear ideological bent in the incoming president’s early moves. It’s probably a mistake to try, because the definitions of left and right, liberal and conservative, are being scrambled right before our eyes. Some Trump moves so far track with his populist outsider campaign image. Others are moves a conventional conservative could make. Some on his team would have been comfortable picks by any standard-issue Republican; some could as easily have been made by a Democratic president-elect. The emerging picture suggests only two safe predictions about the Trump presidency. The first is that there will be a continuing struggle between the populist Donald Trump, who battles the corporate world and its love of free markets above all else, and the more conventionally Republican Donald Trump, who is comfortable with the leaders of that same corporate, free-market-loving world. The second safe prediction is that there are no safe predictions.

“Almost seven in 10 people routinely say the country’s going in the wrong direction, wages have basically been flat since 1999, and yet this president comes out and in a very infantile manner blames cable news without any sense of personal responsibility,” Ingraham said during a panel discussion on Fox News’ “Special Report.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine published on Tuesday, Obama did indeed have plenty of blame to lay at the feet of Fox News and the Clinton campaign’s ground game for Trump’s win, but apparently felt that his own record had absolutely nothing to do with Trump’s stunning election victory and the Republicans’ success in maintaining control of Congress.

“In this election, [voters] turned out in huge numbers for Trump. And I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively. Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments,” Obama said.

“They say Trump can be immature at times, [but] what was that?” Ingraham asked. “And he goes over to Europe and he goes, “well you know I’m actually very popular, look at the polls, my policies are actually very popular,” [but he] just got shellacked, [his] party just got shellacked,” she said. “At least do what Bill Clinton did and say you know, that was a drubbing, we really took it.”

Of course, Obama has spent his entire time in office blaming other people — President Bush, closet racists, Fox News, conservative talk radio — for his own failures and unpopularity, so it’s hardly surprising that with less than two months left in office his blame-everyone-but-himself game is still going strong.

Merchants located in downtown Show Low are invited to decorate their storefronts with holiday decorations and lights by 5 p.m. Dec. 7 to compete in Show Low Main Street’s downtown merchant holiday decorating contest.

Any business located within the Downtown Redevelopment District (either side of the Deuce of Clubs between Old Linden Road and the Show Low Creek Bridge; either side of White Mountain Road between the Deuce of Clubs and Huning Street; and the area bounded by the Deuce of Clubs, White Mountain Road, Huning/McNeil streets and 6th Street) is eligible and there is no need to register.